Commentary: Hospital Administrator Wants You to Have Some Priorities
Good morning, Dr Sri-Sheshadariprativadibayankaram. Thanks for taking a moment out of your busy hospitalist day to stop by my office as I had requested. Have a seat. Yes, that's a gold-plated chair, thanks! I used...
Meet Dr. Eugene Gu and His Girlfriend Eugene Gu?
TWITTERVERSE, U.S. – Dr. Eugene Gu first gained national social media attention in Spring 2018 when he claimed he was fired from the general surgical residency program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for kneeling to...
Will I Cry During This Admission?
The hospital can be a scary place, even to frequent fliers. With so much uncertainty about what to expect, it would be nice to have a guide to help identify risk factors for distress...
Vaccines Cause Children to Love Minecraft
It really couldn’t be more obvious, just look around. We NEVER saw a child playing Minecraft when I was growing up, never. Now it’s everywhere. What is also happening? The mass-vaccination of our precious...
Opinion: Like Michigan Leaders, I Also Prefer My Water Corrosive and Full of Lead
I’m sure you’re reading about the Flint water crisis and thinking the same thing as me: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, and other government officials are true heroes! BRAVO!!!...
Ebola Virus: I’m Really Uncomfortable with All This Attention I’m Getting
Good morning, American citizens. Let me introduce myself: I'm the Ebola virus.
PLEASE! Calm down, calm down and please allow me a few words. I would really like to get a few things off my...
Why I Became a Hospital Administrator
After carefully surveying the shifting American healthcare landscape for the past decade, I retired from my increasingly headache filled private practice and said to myself, "Self, you can’t beat ‘em, so join ‘em."
No longer...
Commentary: Percocet Doesn’t Work for Me Because It Has Tylenol, and Tylenol Doesn’t Help...
Thanks but no thanks. Percocet (oxycodone/acetaminophen) doesn’t work for me. Why? Isn’t it obvious? You’re the one with the medical degree and you don’t even know? Well let me explain it to you. Percocet...
Let Me Have at Your Johnson
EXAM ROOM 4, UROLOGY CLINIC - Hello, sir. You seem a little bit nervous. Well, there’s no need for that, I can assure you. After medical school I spent the better part of a decade...
VA Secretary Says Disney Doesn’t Measure Wait Times, So VA Shouldn’t Either: What Do...
Robert McDonald, the Veterans Affairs Secretary, recently compared VA wait times to Disney wait times, saying that Disney doesn't use wait times as a measure of success so why should the VA. Good point,...
